This man claimed that by asking the government to provide them antiretroviral medication, HIV-positive patients are advocating a "hemi-nanny state." He collaborated with a neuroscientist of the same last name on articles such as "A Pain in the Fetus" and "The Ethics of Neonatal Male Circumcision," and in another work, he cited male-only military conscription, the tendency for women to win custody battles, and infrequent reporting of sexual assult against boys as examples of the titular "second sexism." One book by this thinker discusses the asymmetry between the ideas that the absence of pain is good even if nobody experiences that good and that the absence of pleasure is not bad unless there is someone for whom that absence is a deprivation. This man promulgated his most notable idea in that book, in which he rejects hedonistic, desire-fulfillment, and objective list views of why existence is good. That book also concludes that using a
This man claimed that by asking the government to provide them antiretroviral medication, HIV-positive patients are advocating a "hemi-nanny state." He collaborated with a neuroscientist of the same last name on articles such as "A Pain in the Fetus" and "The Ethics of Neonatal Male Circumcision," and in another work, he cited male-only military conscription, the tendency for women to win custody battles, and infrequent reporting of sexual assult against boys as examples of the titular "second sexism." One book by this thinker discusses the asymmetry between the ideas that the absence of pain is good even if nobody experiences that good and that the absence of pleasure is not bad unless there is someone for whom that absence is a deprivation. This man promulgated his most notable idea in that book, in which he rejects hedonistic, desire-fulfillment, and objective list views of why existence is good. That book also concludes that using assisted and artificial reproduction is equivalent to treating children as means, and that because all lives include some suffering, coming into existence is always a harm. For 10 points, name this South African bioethicist and antinatalist, the author of Better Never to Have Been.
This man claimed that by asking the government to provide them antiretroviral medication, HIV-positive patients are advocating a "hemi-nanny state."
{David Benatar} [{Note}: {Despite extensive research}, it is {completely unclear how} or {whether Michael} and {David} and {Solomon Benatar} are {related}, other {than} the {fact} that they {collaborate} on articles.]